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Blue Hen softball team battles James Madison
UD opened the series with a 2-1 victory in the first game of Saturdays doubleheader but James Madison came back to win the second game 4-3. The Dukes won 4-2 on Sunday. The Fightin Blue Hens fell to 16-11. They will next play a home doubleheader against Delaware State University beginning at 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 31. On Saturday, the Hens won on a complete game by pitcher Carolynne Sloat and timely hitting by Laura Streets, who had two hits and drove in both UD runs. In the nightcap, UD starter Jenn Joseph took the loss. Liz Winslow had a double, drove home two runs and scored one run. Sloat came on in relief of Joseph and threw four shutout innings. In Sundays game, Sloat held James Madison to just one hit in the first four innings, but the Dukes exploded for four runs in the fifth. The Hens got on the board in the first inning on an RBI single by Randi Isaacs. With the runners breaking from first and second on a 3-2 pitch, Isaacs ripped a two-out single to right, scoring Kelly Pastic. Delaware made it 2-0 in the third when Pastic scored on another RBI single by Isaacs. Pastic finished the day with three hits in three trips to the plate. Isaacs and Liz Winslow had two hits each.
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